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asan beg · **on:** Jun 30, 2018

Recent research by Olmstead and Rhode (2002) emphasizes the importance of _________________in explaining increased agricultural productivity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
a. learning by doing
b. the movement from family farms to corporate farms
c. better access to banks and financial capital
d. biological and chemical innovations

Question 2

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, farmers in the Great Lakes region
a. specialized in grain production.
b. specialized in production of fresh fruits and vegetables.
c. switched their emphasis from grain production to dairy farming.
d. earned high profits by raising cattle for beef production.

braelync · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 30, 2018

Answer to Question 1

d. biological and chemical innovations

Answer to Question 2

c. switched their emphasis from grain production to dairy farming.